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University of Michigan to offer post-MFA fellowships

by Celeste Ng

…hort entering its second year this fall. Says a press release: Thanks to a new gift from Helen Zell, the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan is now able to offer all qualifying graduates of our program one year of post-MFA funding. The University of Michigan’s MFA Program in Creative Writing has been committed to offering post-graduate support to our writers since the first Meijer Fellowship was offered in 1999, thanks to…


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Tobias Wolff, on the future of the short story

by Celeste Ng

…es with those famously shortened attention spans, kind of like the idea of entering a world and staying in it for a week or so, and not having to get used to a new set of characters every time they finish 15 pages. I do. But I also love novels. I just started Richard Price’s Lush Life, and I am loving this novel and I’m really glad that I’m able to stay with him for the 400 or 500 pages of this novel. But at the same time I’m looking forward to th…


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Figuring It Out As You Go: An Interview with Paula Whyman

by Melissa Scholes Young

…at is? I think Miranda, as she ages, is realizing that people are far more complicated than she thought when she was younger, that objectivity is hard to come by, and she’s not where she thought she’d be in her life. Maybe she wonders if it’s like that for everyone. The problem at hand in this story is highlighting her own dissatisfaction. As a teenager, perhaps Miranda had thought, as many of us did, that adulthood would bring some sort of secret…


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The Cardboard Valise, by Ben Katchor

by Sara Henkin

…er Links & Resources: Shoehorn Technique © Ben Katchor Visit Ben Katchor’s website—katchor.com—which links to his weekly comic strips, audio cartoons (!), and his fascinating blog, which ranges from Leo Tolstoy’s drawing-as-writing, and “The Golden Age of Urinal Design: c. 1885.” Read interviews with Katchor on the Daily Beast (3/4/11) and the Onion‘s AV Club (4/22/11). Interested in the interplay between words and pictures? Check out these other…


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Story Cycles: A Conversation with Brandon Taylor

by Melissa Scholes Young

…ocial agenda. Some people come to show off their casserole and some people come for the free food. They are these nice community building activities. I didn’t know what a potluck was until I moved to the Midwest. Growing up in Alabama, all of our parties were sort of potlucks, but I didn’t know that was what it was called. What did you call them? We just called them parties, and you were expected to bring something and if you didn’t, that’s rude….


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Believe It or Not: A Deceptive Kind of Fiction

by Robert L. Shuster

…settling time between the end of a dream and fully waking—when the bedroom comes into focus, but the wild story the brain has conjured remains vivid and believable. That’s the state that Borges put me in, and it’s no wonder that my memory superimposes my first readings of “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” and “The Secret Miracle” on the dorm-room smoking of pot. Years later, maybe a little wiser, I found myself trying to correct someone else’s misimpre…


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What You Are Living Is Your Life: A Conversation with Danielle Evans

by Melissa Scholes Young

…where she could invoke some readers’ empathy for long enough for that to become uncomfortable, and open up a question about the price of empathy and the way it connects to privilege, and it was also a way for me to write a story that felt like it was looking directly at how structural racism operates, without making that story such nonstop trauma for myself or readers of color that I couldn’t inhabit it. When you read your letter about pandemic lo…


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Interesting Problems: An Interview with Brad Watson

by Sarah Anne Johnson

…about as close as I come to that, I suppose. The title of your first novel comes from Dante’s The Divine Comedy. What drew you to that as a source for The Heaven of Mercury? Truth is, I don’t recall what first led me to Dante when I was working on The Heaven of Mercury. I think it may have been a rather idle looking around for references to Mercury–the god, the planet, the element–that led me somehow to The Divine Comedy. And when I saw the chapte…


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The Question of Fate: An Interview with Sharon Harrigan

by Debra Jo Immergut

…scraping to get by—but then there are many moments when we feel the story entering another realm. Mythology and magic often come into play. Have you always had a fascination with ancient mythologies? Would you define yourself as mostly a realist, or mostly a fabulist? How did you navigate the boundary? The point of view itself is magical if you buy into it on a literal level, since it requires readers to believe two people can speak in one voice…


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The Strongly Felt Thing: An Interview with Dylan Nice

by Brian Allen Carr

…to be precise about, drafting took months, many hours in the main library computer lab. The big New York magazine passed when I submitted it in February, but I appreciated the nudge. You also mentioned Jesus’ Son. Let’s talk about that book’s influence a bit more, because I’ve been picking it up recently. So many good lines. Gary Lutz blurbed Other Kinds, calling it “a book to be memorized,” and I was curious, Dylan, what your approach is. Are yo…




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